You can now register for your PhD degree with ATREE
Hello Readers,
Information on the new Ph.D. research programme at ATREE has been uploaded on the ATREE website.
You can download your application form here at http://www.atree.org/phd_desc.html
Do circulate this information to potential students or departments / institutions that you have direct contact with.
Please contact me if you have any questions regarding the programme.
Best,
Dr Robert John Chandran, ATREE Fellow
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
659, 5th A Main Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560 024, India.
Phone: +91-80-2353 0069 Ext-47
Fax: +91-80-2353 0070
Web: http://www.atree.org/robertjc.html
Friday, April 27, 2007
News Watch
2007 Goldman Prize Award Winners
This year’s Goldman prize winners come from Canada, Zambia, Peru, Mongolia, Ireland and Iceland.
Prize winners include:
Tsetsegee Munkhbayar for protecting Mongolia’s water resources by halting mining.
Julio Cusurichi for saving the rainforests and protecting the rights of the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon.
Hammerskjoeld Simwinga, from Zambia for saving elephants from poaching while also helping the community to become free of poverty.
Willie Corduff for preventing Shell Oil from building an illegal pipeline through Ross Port, Ireland.Sophia Rabliauskas from Manitoba, Canada for stopping destructive logging and hydro-power development
Orri Vigfússon for bringing to a halt commercial salmon fishing in the North Atlantic
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_us/green_nyc_3
To know more about the Goldman prize, check out http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipients/current
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CAG Report of Arunachal Pradesh’s 12 protected areas reveals shocking misuse of resources
Read the full story here at : http://www.indiatogether.org/2007/apr/env-arunacag.htm
Read the full story here at : http://www.indiatogether.org/2007/apr/env-arunacag.htm
Eight British companies on ‘save earth mission’
What do Tesco, insurance company Royal & Sun Alliance, a home improvement retain store chain B&Q, British Gas, Marks and Spencer, Barclaycard and mobile operator O2 share in common?
They are out on a mission to halt climate change by promoting greener lifestyles.
You can read more about this interesting initiative at :
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL2360469720070423?src=042307_1213_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters&pageNumber=2
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What do Tesco, insurance company Royal & Sun Alliance, a home improvement retain store chain B&Q, British Gas, Marks and Spencer, Barclaycard and mobile operator O2 share in common?
They are out on a mission to halt climate change by promoting greener lifestyles.
You can read more about this interesting initiative at :
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL2360469720070423?src=042307_1213_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters&pageNumber=2
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165 000 food crop varieties to be saved by $ 37.5 Million dollar grant
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Government of Norway have donated $ 30 million and $ 7.5 million respectively to the UN Foundation and the Global Crop Diversity Trust to help preserve 165,000 varieties of 21 of the world’s most critical food
crops.
The project will save many rare and endangered varieties of indigenous food crops by renovating gene banks and seed banks in developing and under developed countries.
The Government of Norway too will provide space on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen for the seed banks to be set up.
A major global plant database will pool together the information contained in hundreds of plant gene banks.
Source: http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v18/i13/13001001.htm>
You can find out more about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalDevelopment/Agriculture/
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Government of Norway have donated $ 30 million and $ 7.5 million respectively to the UN Foundation and the Global Crop Diversity Trust to help preserve 165,000 varieties of 21 of the world’s most critical food
crops.The project will save many rare and endangered varieties of indigenous food crops by renovating gene banks and seed banks in developing and under developed countries.
The Government of Norway too will provide space on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen for the seed banks to be set up.
A major global plant database will pool together the information contained in hundreds of plant gene banks.
Source: http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v18/i13/13001001.htm>
You can find out more about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalDevelopment/Agriculture/
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IPCC Report forecasts gloomy future
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th Assessment Report is out.
Grim forecasts from the report include a rise in poverty and spread of infections like diarrheal diseases and malaria.
A greater risk of deaths due to disease and injury caused by heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts has also been predicted.
The report states that, “By 2020, between 75 and 250 million people are projected to be exposed to an increase of water stress due to climate change”. The rep
ort also warns of a huge rise in sea levels due to melting of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antartica that can cause wide spread flooding of coastal zones.
For the Indian sub continent, glacial melting in the Himalayas is the big threat
The report states that, “freshwater availability in Central, South, East and Southeast Asia particularly in large river basins is projected to decrease due to climate change which, along with population growth and increasing demand arising from higher standards of living, could adversely affect more than a billion people by the 2050s”.
Another dire prediction is a very significant loss of Asia's biodiversity.
Check out the full report at http://www.ipcc.ch/
What must India, Indians and the people of Asia do on a priority basis to minimize the effects of the climate change?
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The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th Assessment Report is out.
Grim forecasts from the report include a rise in poverty and spread of infections like diarrheal diseases and malaria.
A greater risk of deaths due to disease and injury caused by heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts has also been predicted.
The report states that, “By 2020, between 75 and 250 million people are projected to be exposed to an increase of water stress due to climate change”. The rep
ort also warns of a huge rise in sea levels due to melting of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antartica that can cause wide spread flooding of coastal zones.For the Indian sub continent, glacial melting in the Himalayas is the big threat
The report states that, “freshwater availability in Central, South, East and Southeast Asia particularly in large river basins is projected to decrease due to climate change which, along with population growth and increasing demand arising from higher standards of living, could adversely affect more than a billion people by the 2050s”.
Another dire prediction is a very significant loss of Asia's biodiversity.
Check out the full report at http://www.ipcc.ch/
What must India, Indians and the people of Asia do on a priority basis to minimize the effects of the climate change?
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World map of plants released!
The global plant biodiversity map has been developed by a collaborative research effort involving biologists from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Bonn in Germany.
Source: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/03-07Plant.asp
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The global plant biodiversity map has been developed by a collaborative research effort involving biologists from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Bonn in Germany.
Source: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/03-07Plant.asp
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DST may spend $ 50 million for Indian Envirometer
India may soon have giant atmospheric flux towers installed at strategic locations to monitor levels of carbon dioxide and other environmental variables.
The idea of setting it up has been initiated by Dr Pallaoor Sundareshwar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology along with a team of environmental scientists.The Department of Science and Technology, India plans to spend $ 50 million to set it up.
If implemented, the flux tower network labeled INDOFLUX may help India have better detection systems for monitoring key parameters like atmospheric gases that reflect the state of India’s environment.
Perhaps renaming INDOFLUX as Indian envirometer may help spell out it's role a bit more clearly.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/070409-12.html
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India may soon have giant atmospheric flux towers installed at strategic locations to monitor levels of carbon dioxide and other environmental variables.
The idea of setting it up has been initiated by Dr Pallaoor Sundareshwar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology along with a team of environmental scientists.The Department of Science and Technology, India plans to spend $ 50 million to set it up.
If implemented, the flux tower network labeled INDOFLUX may help India have better detection systems for monitoring key parameters like atmospheric gases that reflect the state of India’s environment.
Perhaps renaming INDOFLUX as Indian envirometer may help spell out it's role a bit more clearly.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/070409-12.html
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Earthling species known by name add up to 1 009 000 plus!
The catalogue of life! an ambitious project to list out every species known has already swept past the million mark.
The six year old, 3000 biologist strong project now has 1 0009 000 species listed out.
You can browse through the Annual Checklist of all the species at : http://www.catalogueoflife.org/info_about_col.php.
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The catalogue of life! an ambitious project to list out every species known has already swept past the million mark.
The six year old, 3000 biologist strong project now has 1 0009 000 species listed out.
You can browse through the Annual Checklist of all the species at : http://www.catalogueoflife.org/info_about_col.php.
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